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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Ornette Coleman joins Ancestors, Marvin X Elegy for Ornette Coleman

Elegy for Ornette

Marvin X

He played to us ornate sounds beyond the beyond

who would not want us to transcend American madness

mythical dream of eternal white supremacy

Ornette

let your sounds gather the army of independence

we must have some of this land to call our own

Elijah said

We deserve it for 400 years free labor

sing Ornette

scream Ornette

break down brain cells

music heals

armies march to music

music kills

give us healing music

sing Ornette

Scream

Scream

Ornette

We hear you

in our bowels

we hear you

in the bottomless pit of our treacherous souls

we hear you

dancing prancing on mountains hills

Ornette

Playing having fun raising the dead

black arts movement sounds of liberation

We love you

Ornette

ASE ASE ASE

--Marvin X

6/11/15

Marvin,

It's with great sadness that I report
the death of my dear friend and one
of the great master musicians of the ages
Ornette Coleman.

Ornette's approach to music was so radical
that it caused other master musicians at
the height of their creative powers to
step back and entirely reassess their own
art.

As an instrumentalist (particularly on
the alto sax), a composer, a band leader,
an educator, and a philosopher of music and
life he was peerless.

To meet him and spend any time at all
with him and be receptive to the experience
was to have your life changed for the good.

He was a thoroughly decent and kind
human being who cared as passionately about
others finding their voices as he fiercely
defended his right to explore and develop
his own.

By coincidence we screened tonight's video
recently.

In case you missed it - or even if you did
see it - this is one of the best film
documentations of Ornette the musician and
human being available.

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Marvin has been ignored and silenced,like Malcolm would be ignored and silenced if he had lived on into the Now. He's one of the most extraordinary, exciting black intellectuals living today --Rudolph Lewis, Chickenbones.